--- product_id: 3631927 title: "Dagon - DVD" price: "€ 19.99" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/3631927-dagon-dvd store_origin: GR region: Greece --- # Dagon - DVD **Price:** € 19.99 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Dagon - DVD - **How much does it cost?** € 19.99 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/3631927-dagon-dvd) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's secret..they worship Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea...and Dagon's unholy offspring are on the loose... Review: A Symbolist Dream of Annihilation - *** Major Spoiler Alert *** Stuart Gordon's Dagon is an intense and unique film based mostly on H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth and his much shorter work entitled Dagon. This is really epic material in a strangely soaked Spanish environment. A Lovecraftian cult worshiping the underwater deity Dagon have taken over a small town on the Atlantic coast of Spain. A sailboat on pleasure cruise ends wrecked there. They will not be leaving anytime soon. Now situationally this is a fairly obvious menu. Gordon does, at one point, dive off the gory edge, but this is a Stuart Gordon film after all. Meanwhile the chase through dripping dampness of the town is really a pulse quickener. What makes this work is the danker than dank waterlogged environment and the extraordinarily emotional relationship of Dagon's daughter played in a one of a kind performance by Spanish actress Macarena Gomez to our trapped nerd, played by Ezra Godden. Macarena plays the part of tentacled siren princess with real fish-eyed believability. She was given instructions by Gordon (whose previous Lovecraft works include From Beyond and Re-Animator) to keep her eyes from blinking. When in the end Uxía (Gomez) craves Paul (Godden), whom she calls Pablo, she calls out to him with such an urgent imploring sad doomed yet loving tone in her voice she becomes perhaps the ultimate mermaid nightmare: Her eyes filled with wells of tearful salt water, her robes of gilded Symbolist splendor. She reveals the dark secrets of the unholy sect. Uxía: Pablo, it is your destiny... We had different mothers, but the same father... We are children of Dagon. Your dreams. Remember your dreams, Pablo. They brought you here. Paul: No. They were nightmares. They weren't real. Uxía: Every dream is a wish. Paul: Somebody help me! What's happening to me? Uxía: You are my brother. You will be my lover - forever. The tone Macarena hits here is the crescendo of the entire film, that sense of hopeless beauty and tragic certainty. I don't agree philosophically with the fatalism of that black romance, but who hasn't felt that temptation to give into it. And as Paul sets himself on fire and plunges into the sea Uxía follows. And together they descend into the depths of the tentacled God Dagon's realm. One feels the drowning, yet liberation. Yet we know to follow is to be annihilated. I can't think of another film to present the darker aesthetics aspects of the antique Symbolist dream so vividly. For those with strong stomachs yet sensitive hearts I strongly recommend Dagon. Review: A Big Surprise - I caught this on the SciFi channel and have yet to see the DVD. Judging from what I saw, however, I have to say that this is definitely a must for true HP Lovecraft lovers. I coerced my wife and youngest daughter into watching it and judging from their reactions, the movie was fairly spooky. I can't say I was spooked because I know the plot line only too well. What surprises and pleases me the most about this movie is how well, how *faithful* the flick was to the original story--which is 90% "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and maybe 5% of "Dagon", a minor work of HPL that I've read but can't recall all that well. There's a bonus to the movie that is also surprising--the updated parts (modern technology such as cell phones, etc.) are blended seamlessly into the movie and augment the atmosphere. As the other reviewers note, this is a Grade B movie, however. The special effects aren't state of the art by any means and if that's all you care about, you might as well find a different flick. It's the little things that matter, in this film. The fact that the hero, Paul, is classic Lovecraft in manner and appearance. He even wears a Miskatonic University sweatshirt! HPL's horror of foreigners and foreign languages, of the ocean, of anything slimy, of mold, of damn near anything a respectable but decaying Rhodey aristocrat would find yucky, is perfectly obvious in the movie. The plot, though updated to take place in Spain, rather than in New England, is remarkably faithful even to the long narration by the one townsman that remains fully human. As in the original, Paul has narrow escape after narrow escape--indeed, quite a bit of the movie is Paul getting chased by limping, shambling, crawling monstrosities in the dark. Even the ending is faithful, which is a must for the plot line to make the slightest sense whatsoever. In point of fact, the movie has more tension in it than the story, simply because the artificial frame of the narration, so often employed by HPL, is done away with, thus establishing a sense of immediacy that Lovecraft never really achieves. Purists of Lovecraft generally rate "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" up in the top five of the best of Lovecraft, along with *At the Mountains of Madness*, "The Color Out of Space", and "The Dunwich Horror", and it should be. And this is probably the best movie ever done from Lovecraft's work. Browning>>> ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Contributor | Stuart Gordon | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,707 Reviews | | Format | Closed-captioned, Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Widescreen | | Genre | Horror | | Initial release date | 2001-01-01 | | Language | English | ## Images ![Dagon - DVD - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1oXtDOYk+L.jpg) ![Dagon - DVD - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1+qObGE5EL.jpg) ![Dagon - DVD - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1CJwmabPrL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Symbolist Dream of Annihilation *by L***M on November 29, 2011* *** Major Spoiler Alert *** Stuart Gordon's Dagon is an intense and unique film based mostly on H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth and his much shorter work entitled Dagon. This is really epic material in a strangely soaked Spanish environment. A Lovecraftian cult worshiping the underwater deity Dagon have taken over a small town on the Atlantic coast of Spain. A sailboat on pleasure cruise ends wrecked there. They will not be leaving anytime soon. Now situationally this is a fairly obvious menu. Gordon does, at one point, dive off the gory edge, but this is a Stuart Gordon film after all. Meanwhile the chase through dripping dampness of the town is really a pulse quickener. What makes this work is the danker than dank waterlogged environment and the extraordinarily emotional relationship of Dagon's daughter played in a one of a kind performance by Spanish actress Macarena Gomez to our trapped nerd, played by Ezra Godden. Macarena plays the part of tentacled siren princess with real fish-eyed believability. She was given instructions by Gordon (whose previous Lovecraft works include From Beyond and Re-Animator) to keep her eyes from blinking. When in the end Uxía (Gomez) craves Paul (Godden), whom she calls Pablo, she calls out to him with such an urgent imploring sad doomed yet loving tone in her voice she becomes perhaps the ultimate mermaid nightmare: Her eyes filled with wells of tearful salt water, her robes of gilded Symbolist splendor. She reveals the dark secrets of the unholy sect. Uxía: Pablo, it is your destiny... We had different mothers, but the same father... We are children of Dagon. Your dreams. Remember your dreams, Pablo. They brought you here. Paul: No. They were nightmares. They weren't real. Uxía: Every dream is a wish. Paul: Somebody help me! What's happening to me? Uxía: You are my brother. You will be my lover - forever. The tone Macarena hits here is the crescendo of the entire film, that sense of hopeless beauty and tragic certainty. I don't agree philosophically with the fatalism of that black romance, but who hasn't felt that temptation to give into it. And as Paul sets himself on fire and plunges into the sea Uxía follows. And together they descend into the depths of the tentacled God Dagon's realm. One feels the drowning, yet liberation. Yet we know to follow is to be annihilated. I can't think of another film to present the darker aesthetics aspects of the antique Symbolist dream so vividly. For those with strong stomachs yet sensitive hearts I strongly recommend Dagon. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Big Surprise *by K***R on August 2, 2005* I caught this on the SciFi channel and have yet to see the DVD. Judging from what I saw, however, I have to say that this is definitely a must for true HP Lovecraft lovers. I coerced my wife and youngest daughter into watching it and judging from their reactions, the movie was fairly spooky. I can't say I was spooked because I know the plot line only too well. What surprises and pleases me the most about this movie is how well, how *faithful* the flick was to the original story--which is 90% "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and maybe 5% of "Dagon", a minor work of HPL that I've read but can't recall all that well. There's a bonus to the movie that is also surprising--the updated parts (modern technology such as cell phones, etc.) are blended seamlessly into the movie and augment the atmosphere. As the other reviewers note, this is a Grade B movie, however. The special effects aren't state of the art by any means and if that's all you care about, you might as well find a different flick. It's the little things that matter, in this film. The fact that the hero, Paul, is classic Lovecraft in manner and appearance. He even wears a Miskatonic University sweatshirt! HPL's horror of foreigners and foreign languages, of the ocean, of anything slimy, of mold, of damn near anything a respectable but decaying Rhodey aristocrat would find yucky, is perfectly obvious in the movie. The plot, though updated to take place in Spain, rather than in New England, is remarkably faithful even to the long narration by the one townsman that remains fully human. As in the original, Paul has narrow escape after narrow escape--indeed, quite a bit of the movie is Paul getting chased by limping, shambling, crawling monstrosities in the dark. Even the ending is faithful, which is a must for the plot line to make the slightest sense whatsoever. In point of fact, the movie has more tension in it than the story, simply because the artificial frame of the narration, so often employed by HPL, is done away with, thus establishing a sense of immediacy that Lovecraft never really achieves. Purists of Lovecraft generally rate "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" up in the top five of the best of Lovecraft, along with *At the Mountains of Madness*, "The Color Out of Space", and "The Dunwich Horror", and it should be. And this is probably the best movie ever done from Lovecraft's work. Browning>>> ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not a bad film, watch if a Lovecraft fan, though it does have a mermaid that's cool *by T***N on October 12, 2020* Making a good film adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft movie is hard. This movie tries but doesn’t quite succeed. It’s not bad, it’s very watchable, but not great as either a horror movie or a Lovecraft adaptation, in my opinion just missing the mark. I give it a lot of credit for effort though. The film is loosely based on Lovecraft’s story “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” though instead of being set in the creepy coastal New England down of Innsmouth it is set in the creepy coastal Spanish town of Imboca (and is not a period piece story, as this film came out in 2001 and seems to be set at that time). The film centers on the character Paul Marsh (played by Ezra Godden), who starts out the film dreaming of a beautiful mermaid (played by Macarena Gomez) near some mysterious underwater ruins. He wakes up, finding he is back on a sail boat with his girlfriend Barbara (played by Raquel Merono) and their older friends Vicki and Howard. A sudden storm blows up, the ship wrecks against some rocks, and Vicki is injured. With Howard staying with Vicki, Paul and Barbara go to the seaside village they can easily see from the sail boat by an inflatable boat they have on board. The town appears to be deserted, has a big-time creepy vibe, it is driving rain, but look, in the abandoned church with Strange Symbols, they meet a very helpful priest with webbed hands (!) who offers to stay with Barbara while Paul accompanies some local fishermen in their boat to try and retrieve Vicki and Howard. At that point the four people are in the clutches of the creepy townsfolk, and isn’t long before they are all either on the run or captured (or on the run and captured) in a Lovecraftian town of Deformed Mutant Villagers, a Dark Past, and Demonic Rituals to Summon Otherworldly Monsters. It isn’t a bad film and it definitely tries. The positives include Ezra Godden’s performance as Paul Marsh, very relatable, believable as an everyman doing his best in strange situation, sometimes scared, often brave, showing real ingenuity, and with plenty of Come On! type moments. There seems to be a real reverence for the Lovecraftian source material (not the racist bits, but the cool monster, creepy town, and dark ritual bits). We see the mermaid again, the actress playing her very beautiful and the role not particularly Lovecraftian but one I rather liked and was much more interesting than I thought it would be. There is a lot of exposition in one scene but I appreciated how it was done in a flashback, so points for that. The creepy, rainy, scary town was well done, perfect for the film. There is some CGI at the end and while it isn’t great it isn’t horrible and we don’t see it long. Some of the make up at times was kind of eh but sometimes it could be quite good. There is a costume in the third act that had strong Big Trouble in Little China vibes and I liked that. A few of the mermaid scenes were actually quite beautiful. The bad, the movie meanders a lot as Paul gets in and out of trouble in the village in the middle act. Some of the other reviews note bad acting. Some I chalk up to language issues (the actress who played Barbara, Raquel Merono, did not appear to be a native English speaker and I thought did fine but the language issue was there) but the acting I had the most trouble with were the creepy townsfolk, who looked at times like costumed random extras from a suburban residential area press ganged into a movie; they did their best but it wasn’t always great. There were scenes in Spanish and I couldn’t always get an English translation of what was being said, though I don’t recall this ever being enough to make it impossible to follow the overall plot. One character’s accent was extremely thick and I had to turn on subtitles to understand his English at times, though overall I liked the character and the actor. Though overall I liked the Paul Marsh character, the movie seemed to shy away from making him quite as humorous as he could be, almost as if the actor was game and could handle it, but the writer, director pulled back. I don’t think a lot of tweaking would have been needed to make it a more humorous (but not campy) film. At times the movie could be pretty gory. Also there is a fair amount of female nudity too (rear and topless shots) thought they didn’t seem gratuitous (one in a ritual scene and also some mermaid related toplessness). Not a bad film. If you are a Lovecraft fan you know it is slim pickings as far as movie adaptations go so I would say check it out. It is also the last film role of Francisco Rabal, an actor who appeared in a number of films including Sorcerer. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.gr/products/3631927-dagon-dvd](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/3631927-dagon-dvd) --- *Product available on Desertcart Greece* *Store origin: GR* *Last updated: 2026-04-30*